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Selecting the best tree for any particular location or economic situation, whether that is for sawn timber or pulp, is the key goal of the TREEPLAN software. TREEPLAN is used for genetic evalu…
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Release Date: Thu, 23 June 2011 The new standards manager for Forest and Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA) is the well-known timber engineer, Boris Iskra. FWPA Managing Director, Ric S…
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Variable retention (VR) is a harvesting system, developed in the Pacific Northwest of USA and Canada, that is increasingly being used worldwide to achieve improved biodiversity and social…
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This report outlines and reviews the potential implications and exposure of the recent discovery in Australia of the exotic plant-disease Myrtle rust (Puccinia psidii). It also aims to pro…
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Release Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 Communicating information about designing and building with wood and the environmental benefits of wood are part of Forest and Wood Products Australia’…
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This paper examines how carbon values should be incorporated into Australian forest management and how forests could best be managed to take up and store carbon from the atmosphere. The pape…
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As a result of recent devastating bushfires, more restrictions have been placed on timber used in and around buildings. In addition, the use of timber in commercial buildings higher than two…
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Traditionally it takes many hours before the results from monitoring MUF (melamine urea formaldehyde) resins used in MDF manufacturing plants are available to production engineers. If th…